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Frank Cotolo
November 22, 2018 |
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The sad stories concerning people who have won millions of dollars with lottery play are not few
and far between - they are all too common. People who play lotteries to become rich and hit the
lotteries and become rich rarely know how to handle money and fall into destitution very soon after
they reach millionaire status.
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Here are a few sad stories about such people. Their names have been changed as part of the deal made
for them to reveal their embarrassing episodes.
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"I won fifteen million," said Rex Ripon, "and I quit my job immediately. That would have been all
right but when I realized I could quit my job I went into the office of my boss, who had treated me
like scum for years, and I punched him so hard that he crashed through his office window. He sued me
for all I had won and he won and I lost all of my money and, obviously, my boss would not hire me
again."
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"Everything I ever wanted could be mine," said Liz Lavadore, who won a super lottery with one
two-dollar ticket that got her a hundred fifty million bucks."
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